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Post by kchoya on Oct 26, 2012 11:37:35 GMT -5
How is that a "sex" joke? And it's not "pretty much the same" as the Dunham monologue. That's like saying the media's fascination with Mourdock's comment is "pretty much the same" as the level of fascination (or lack thereof) over Obama's bungling of Libya (including reports now that CIA "seal" teams were denied permission to invervene).
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Post by Boz on Oct 26, 2012 12:06:28 GMT -5
I simply rest assured that probably about 99% of those who watch "Girls" are either not old enough or not registered to vote.
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Post by EasyEd on Oct 26, 2012 12:08:59 GMT -5
KC, stop giving out information about the Libya thing. The American people are not expected to know about this until after the election.
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Post by kchoya on Oct 26, 2012 12:24:59 GMT -5
KC, stop giving out information about the Libya thing. The American people are not expected to know about this until after the election. The [extra] cynical side of me believes that to be completely true.
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Post by Boz on Oct 26, 2012 13:42:01 GMT -5
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Post by kchoya on Oct 26, 2012 16:17:36 GMT -5
Chris Matthews has trademarked the term racism and all derivatives. Please prepare to receive a letter from Gloria Allred.
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Post by EasyEd on Oct 29, 2012 7:58:02 GMT -5
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Oct 29, 2012 9:00:12 GMT -5
If newspaper endorsements mattered, Ted Cruz would be in big trouble in the Texas Senate race. All of the state's major newspapers, save the Houston Chronicle, have endorsed his opponent.
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Post by TC on Oct 31, 2012 6:36:21 GMT -5
Tomorrow is the last day to enter the two contests. Still a lot of posters that like to throw it around in this thread that have not entered. It's as easy as copy-pasting and removing some text.
Both freeze tomorrow at midnight.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Nov 1, 2012 11:48:53 GMT -5
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Post by Boz on Nov 1, 2012 13:03:07 GMT -5
Interesting. Maybe someone should show this to the actual campaigns. Naaaaah.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Nov 1, 2012 13:46:13 GMT -5
I couldn't, for either.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Nov 1, 2012 15:24:49 GMT -5
A Vote for a President Who Will Lead on Climate ChangeQUOTE:We need leadership from the White House – and over the past four years, President Barack Obama has taken major steps to reduce our carbon consumption, including setting higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks. His administration also has adopted tighter controls on mercury emissions, which will help to close the dirtiest coal power plants (an effort I have supported through my philanthropy), which are estimated to kill 13,000 Americans a year.
Mitt Romney, too, has a history of tackling climate change. As governor of Massachusetts, he signed on to a regional cap-and-trade plan designed to reduce carbon emissions 10 percent below 1990 levels. "The benefits (of that plan) will be long-lasting and enormous – benefits to our health, our economy, our quality of life, our very landscape. These are actions we can and must take now, if we are to have `no regrets' when we transfer our temporary stewardship of this Earth to the next generation," he wrote at the time.
He couldn't have been more right. But since then, he has reversed course, abandoning the very cap-and-trade program he once supported. This issue is too important. We need determined leadership at the national level to move the nation and the world forward.
I believe Mitt Romney is a good and decent man, and he would bring valuable business experience to the Oval Office. He understands that America was built on the promise of equal opportunity, not equal results. In the past he has also taken sensible positions on immigration, illegal guns, abortion rights and health care. But he has reversed course on all of them, and is even running against the health-care model he signed into law in Massachusetts.
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Post by Boz on Nov 1, 2012 16:32:11 GMT -5
Oh, good grief. I'm glad no one is conflating weather and climate anymore. Especially not for political purposes in the direct wake of a natural disaster. Because that would be just wrong! Like everyone said it was when Republicans made fun of Al Gore in the last cold winter in DC and during the snowstorms a couple years ago. Wait, I forgot. Snowstorms are indicative of climate change too. Every weather anomaly is....no matter how localized. Thanks for watching out for us, Mikey. Pass the salt while you're at it.
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Post by bmartin on Nov 1, 2012 19:28:34 GMT -5
Of course big snow storms are not evidence that the climate is colder. They most likely are evidence that it is wetter, because there is more evaporation when there is more open water because the ice sheets are much smaller and the Great Lakes et al freeze over much later.
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Post by HoyaNyr320 on Nov 1, 2012 21:19:14 GMT -5
Interesting. Maybe someone should show this to the actual campaigns. Naaaaah. For the record, I made Obama's plan add up by limiting the mortgage interest deduction, closing the carried interest loophole, eliminating the private jet credit and the oil, coal, and gas subsidies, a new tax on financial institutions for banks larger than $50 billion, adopting the 2009 (George W. Bush's) estate tax rates, and increasing the Social Security payroll tax cap. Not surprisingly, I couldn't make Romney's plan add up without hurting the middle class.
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Post by TBird41 on Nov 2, 2012 10:47:08 GMT -5
Glad to see Mayor Bloomberg has his priorities straight right now. Political endorsements and the marathon > helping his constituents.
Real strong contrast with Chris Christie, that's for sure.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Nov 2, 2012 12:01:00 GMT -5
Understanding Mitt - Running the Data on a Romney PresidencyGenerally, a positive article. EXCERPT:What Romney values most is something most of us don’t think much about: management. A lifetime of data has proven to him that he’s extraordinarily, even uniquely, good at managing and leading organizations, projects and people. It’s those skills, rather than specific policy ideas, that he sees as his unique contribution. That has been the case everywhere else he has worked, and he assumes it will be the case in the White House, too. When we look at Romney’s career and see a coreless opportunist, we’re just looking at the wrong data...
He was elevated to the position of bishop by the Mormon church. He turned the Salt Lake City Olympics around. He was a generally successful governor of Massachusetts who signed into law the country’s first universal health-care bill with broad bipartisan support. More recently, of course, he used his leadership and management skills to win the Republican nomination for president. Experience has shown Romney that his skills are applicable across a wide range of endeavors and a vast assortment of constituencies. Success in the number of fields that superstar CEOs enter, Freeland says, tends to encourage “a sense of mastery, and that sense of mastery gives them a belief they can do anything.” And Romney has been more successful in more fields than almost any CEO in history.
This is why Mitt Romney thinks he should be president. A lifetime of data has proved to him that his management skills constitute a unique and powerful contribution. In Romney’s world, there’s nothing strange about that, which may also explain his willingness to be unusually strategic, even cynical, about the policies he supports.
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Post by derhoya on Nov 4, 2012 17:11:00 GMT -5
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Post by TBird41 on Nov 5, 2012 12:59:12 GMT -5
So, who all is going to wake up tomorrow and get their revenge? Or has everybody already gotten their revenge?
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